Reason Writers Around Town: Veronique de Rugy on the Debt Ceiling
Writing in today's Washington Times, Reason economics columnist Veronique de Rugy explains why Congress should not raise the debt ceiling and should instead focus on vital cost-cutting measures. As she writes:
As the national debt and entitlements eat up an increasingly large share of the budget pie, those on the left who want to protect government funding for other programs they view as vital should see the urgency in paying down the debt.
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I'm going to one-up de Rugy in calling for the debt ceiling to be lowered. Just imagine if I had a chart showing what that would look like.
All we need to do is stop giving welfare to the rich and make them pay their fair share.
All we need to do is stop giving welfare to the rich everyone and make them pay their fair share.
FIFY
Show me where on the doll the rich person touched you, Tony.
1. "stop giving welfare" = take more money away
2. "take more money away" = stop giving welfare
Note: #1 only applies to the rich, #2 only applies to the poor. Tony language cannot formulate these phrases any other way.
disagreed